Posted on 04/24/2007 7:06:08 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0
April 24, 2007 — It all started with a joke.
Wrapping up a nationwide global warming tour, singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow posted a quirky "solution" online about a new way to save the environment.
She wrote: "I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting."
She told the joke to get people's attention, and it worked. Talk show hosts had a field day with Crow's comments.
"Have you seen my [backside]?" Rosie O'Donnell joked on "The View."
"It seemed like Sheryl was trying to be a little bit cheeky, no pun intended," said Michelle Lee, executive editor of In Touch weekly.
Maybe Crow was inspired by her ecoactivist partner Laurie David. After all, David's husband, Larry David, of "Seinfeld" fame, wrote the famous episode where Elaine says to a neighbor in the next bathroom stall:
"Three squares? You can't spare three squares?"
"No, I don't have a square to spare. I can't spare a square," the woman responds.
Meeting Karl Rove
Crow wanted to clear the air about her comments.
"We're just so happy that people are talking about global warming, even if it's brought on by a joke," Crow told ABC News.
And for Crow and Laurie David, their message is everything.
They just wrapped up a successful cross-country ecotour of 12 college campuses to raise awareness about global warming.
The two started the trip in an environmentally friendly biodiesel bus at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and ended the tour on Earth Day at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
At George Washington, they joined musicians Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Carole King and environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who performed and spoke before a crowd of about 2,000 people.
Crow and David also talked with top White House adviser Karl Rove at the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night.
"How excited were we to have our first opportunity ever to talk directly to the Bush administration about global warming," Crow and David wrote on the Huffington Post blog.
>>>Typical liberal a$$wipe. Makes a total fool of herself and then tries to lie out of it claiming it was a joke all along.
Kind of like Kerry & stuck in Iraq...
Ouch. Don’t insult 30 million people like that. my grandmother was Canadian, and she worked for a paper mill!
Yeah that and Keith Richards snorting his dead pappy.
“It’s a joke.” Yeah, right. She’d better not try to wipe the smile off my face with her “one square.”
Yep, everyone has either thought “Boy she’s dumb” or “Man, I wouldn’t want to shake hands with her!”
Good point.
Imagine if all her followers took this advice — what a nauseatingly smelly world this would be. Takes the phrase, “BO”, to a new level. Of course, we know this would never happen; Dems never do what they insist others should do. Like when Rosie said nobody should have guns — except for her body guards, of course. Idiots.
I agree re: the McGraw’s
They will be the next ones to be shown the door from the country music fans. They are so far up the Clinton’s asses you would need a tow truck to pull them out. F ‘em. He ain’t nothing but a dimestore cowboy anyhow.
Of course, she didn’t intend it as a joke, but it sure made me laugh—this morning, after I went to the bathroom, all I could think about as I wiped my okole was Sheryl Crow. For the record, I used more than one square. Sorry!
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